Bot knowledge base.
Feeling Lonely? These Chatbots Will Keep You Company
August 14, 2018
Humans are creating chatbots to keep other humans company. Read more about how people are connecting with bots and 6 bots to chat with based on your mood.
Chatbots
Designing Personality: How Bots Express Themselves Through Language
August 7, 2018
Developers and companies are building bots to sound more like humans, Using these personality design components can improve user experience with your chatbots.
Chatbots
Define and Design Intents for Your Bot
July 31, 2018
Intents are user intentions and they are how users greet your bot and ask it questions. Learn more about intents and how to design them for your bot.
Chatbots
Design Utterances for Your Bot
July 24, 2018
An utterance is a single portion of your bot’s overall dialog. Learn how to design your bot’s utterances to determine your bot’s tone and personality.
Chatbots
Serverless Computing Simplifies Chatbot Maintenance
July 10, 2018
Serverless computing is a great solution for hosting your chatbot. See the history of serverless and why your bot should be hosted there.
Chatbots
8 Steps to a Better Chatbot
June 26, 2018
If building a chatbot seems like a daunting task, start with this simple 8-step checklist for building a bot. It’s not as complicated as you might think.
Chatbots
How Business Leaders Leverage Chatbot Personalization
June 21, 2018
See how major brands are outsourcing customer service work to chatbots while creating a more personalized online experience for their users.
Chatbots
How to get a .BOT domain
June 19, 2018
This step-by-step guide by Randall Hunt was previously published on the AWS News Blog. You’ll learn how to register a .BOT domain, validate a LEX bot to give Amazon Registry permissions to invoke the bot and verify it’s existence, and get started with Amazon Route53 and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).
Chatbots
How to reserve a .BOT domain using Pandorabots
June 12, 2018
This step-by-step guide by Lauren Kunze was previously published on Pandorabots’ blog. You’ll learn how to create your first bot using a Pandorabots account, deploy your bot and reserve a .BOT domain for your site.
Developers Center
How Apps are Pushing Bots into the Mainstream
June 5, 2018
Conversational marketing and messaging apps are pushing bots into the everyday. Learn about some of the benefits of integrating chatbots in messaging apps.
News
When It Comes to Solving Problems for Your Company, Task Bots Can Help
June 3, 2018
From IT support to admin tasks, task bots are reshaping the way that offices operate. Learn more about the task bots that are making your office life better.
Chatbots
What Chatbot Communities to Join in 2018
May 29, 2018
Do you know where to find other bot developers to talk shop and share your knowledge? If not, we’ve put together a list of our 6 our favorite communities where bot developers and bot enthusiasts alike can share bots, discover new bots, learn how to use new tools, compare frameworks, and keep up with discoveries.
News
Service Chatbots: How Voice Recognition Is Making Them More Sophisticated
May 22, 2018
Voice recognition and deep learning are paving the way for bots to replace humans in customer service. Learn about the challenges facing bot developers today.
Emerging Technology
10 Twitter Bots You Should Follow in 2018
May 15, 2018
From Grammar Police (@_grammar_) to Accidental Haiku (@accidental575), check out 10 of the best Twitter bots to follow in 2018.
News
Beginner’s Guide to Bots
April 27, 2018
Everything you need to know about the past present and future of bots. Whether you're thinking about developing a bot or just want to learn more about bots, this guide will teach you how bots were invented, the basics of how bots work, what bots can do, and where bots are developed and published.
Chatbots
4 Proven Ways to Get Your Bot Discovered
May 8, 2018
Marketplaces at Facebook Messenger, Discord and Slack are already bogged down with more than 100,000 bots. So how do you break through the noise and get your bot discovered? The solution — one not enough people are implementing — is understanding how viral apps get discovered and adapting that process for your bot.
Discoverability
Introduction to Bots
April 3, 2018
What are chatbots and where did they come from? Early roots in psychology and an ironic twist behind the creation of the first chatbot paved the way for modern chatbots. Today, chatbots have become a popular customer service solution able to facilitate sales, complete online tasks, and more.
Chatbots
How Chatbots Work
April 18, 2018
They might seem complicated at first but building a simple bot is surprisingly easy. Of course, building a sophisticated chatbot able to perform complex interactions is much more difficult. Chatbots use Natural Language Processing technology to understand words and phrases and complex bots use AI technology as well.
Chatbots
Functions of Bots
April 10, 2018
The ability of bots to accomplish different types of tasks is evolving and increasing rapidly. You can get a bot to manage projects in your Slack channel, get the weather, discover new music or tell you a dad joke. Here are a few things that bots can do.
Chatbots
Popular Chatbot Publishing Platforms
April 24, 2018
Social and messaging platforms have become the most common place for hobbyists and experienced developers to learn about and interact with bots. These platforms each have their own bots and allow users to build and deploy them. Here’s how the major players in this space have been utilizing chatbots on their platforms.
Chatbots
Popular Bot Building Frameworks
May 1, 2018
When you're ready to build your bot, you'll need the right framework. Bot frameworks are digital spaces where coders and developers build bots from the ground up. This guide covers some of the most common bot building frameworks out there: Amazon Lex, Dialogflow and Microsoft Bot Framework.
Chatbots
Give your bot a home.
You built it. You taught it. Now give it a home to grow on a .bot domain.
